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Help Please... Wireless Network not working...
Hello, can anyone please help me.
I recently switched ISP companies and my wireless internet connection is no longer working.
I have an Inspiron 1501 Laptop and trying to connect to a Linksys Wireless-G 2.4GHz broadband router.
It's a secured wireless network, I have entered the Network Key when prompted to connect and then receive the following message:
"Limited or no Connectivity
You might not be able to access the Internet or some network resources. This problem occurred because the network did not assign a network address to the computer."
I can't connect to the Internet at all and don't understand why... can someone please advise?
Thanks in advance.
Putting a comma between No and New makes your answer very ambiguous. Do you mean the you did not install any software?
Go to Start > Run and type cmd then click OK. In the command prompt window that opens, type ipconfig /all then hit the enter key. Write down the output from this command or select it and save it to a txt file, then copy this output into a reply to this message.
Steve
Start>Run type cmd
Inside the box that pops up type this exactly noting the spacing:
ipconfig /all >> C:\ipconfig.txt
Go to the C Drive, copy and paste the contents of the ipconfig.txt file here.
Message Edited by jmwills on 10-08-2008 07:22 AMWindows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : PeterM-1
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : phub.net.cable.rogers.com
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : phub.net.cable.rogers.com
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-23-89-16-8A
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 99.234.70.150
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 99.234.70.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 99.234.64.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 64.71.255.198
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:27:46 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, October 15, 2008 12:07:11 AM
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1B-FC-D1-EA-75
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.232.98
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
From the looks of the file, you are plugged directly into a cable modem which has no routing capabilities. If it did, your IP Address would be a private address such as 192.168.1.100
What you need to do is get a good wireless router and that would be placed inbetween your cable modem and your PC's. Right now, with the exception of the Windows firewall your machine is exposed tot he world.
No wireless because, again, no wireless router. The 169.254.x.x address is a private Microsoft address that indicates the wireless network card cannot find a valid DHCP server (router).
http://willsit.com/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/setup/default.mspx
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Posted October 7th, 2008 03:00
Did you install any software from the new ISP on the computer when you changed to the new ISP?
Steve